Tom Gallaher, president of Heritage Directions Development and preservation were key topics in Asheville’s recent City Council and mayoral races. In that spirit, Xpress spoke with heritage-development consultant and six-year Asheville resident Tom Gallaher about his adopted home and about how to evaluate and preserve a community’s heritage. Gallaher, who is president of the Heritage … Read more
The weather up here Just how odd is the weather this year? Wouldn’t it be great to have an easy reference to turn to that would make local weather trends clear and understandable? For 21 years, Alex Huang, chair of UNCA’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences, has compiled just such a resource: an annual calendar that … Read more
Terrorism by any other name … On Nov. 19 and 20, I joined 19,000 other concerned citizens in protesting at the gates of Fort Benning, Ga., to demand an end to U.S.-sanctioned terrorism by closing the School of the Americas (SOA) — recently renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. It took five hours … Read more
For far too long, the need to feed the family forced me to live in a distant place. Although it was south of the Mason-Dixon Line, it wasn’t the real South (which my wife and I moved back to as soon as we could). In that distant place, however, we learned many lessons. One was … Read more
